How to Fix America's Corrupt Political System

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it as a brief summary of the problem and the proposed Anti-Corruption Act solution when arguing for getting money out of politics.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

RepresentUs

Topic

political corruption reform

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• As an EX democrat, I'd say the Democrat party is broken too, the amount of election fraud, and corruption in the party makes it look like the Mafia. The whole system is broken and we need to pass the anti-corruption bill asap, if we're to …

• The key is passing anti-corruption acts that get money out of politics: [VIDEO] If it's illegal for lobbyists, corporations, etc to donate to politicians, then we can make politics more fair/ethical. This is a bipartisan group working to get these passed. Anti-corruption benefits everyone.

• Incredibly frustrating. Represent.us is trying to do something about this. I find these videos to be helpful in briefly understanding the problem and their proposed solution 1: problem - [LINK] 2: their solution - [VIDEO]